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    Humans are insane, what even is technology

    No, that's just the usual apllication of electromagnetism. I don't know why we don't use piezoelectricity (for large-scale applications, I think some small or micro-scale ones do). Presumably, the market is already cornered by what we already have, but it might also have been too obvious after...
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    Humans are insane, what even is technology

    Generating electrical power by appying pressure to materials that collect charge under stress. It's how tesla towers generated their energy, I think he used quartz. But you can do it with a lot of things, including water.
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    Humans are insane, what even is technology

    It sure does. Draw picture on rock and energy happens, there's fictional magical systems that have harder rules. Yes, Tesla was showing wireless lightbulbs on stage in the 1800s. It's a real shame the wireless energy projection of his towers doesn't reach very far, though I think it could...
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    What if there a physical/spiritual law that makes it impossible to create weapons more advanced than medieval ones.

    Isn't this the usual thing in most fantasy settings? Most of them are actually way past medieval, despite their own wriiers' beliefs to the contrary.
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    Invisitext Button Appears for Me but Not Other People?

    Invisitext. Let's see. EDIT Still shows up on blackened high contrast.
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    Must have been from a site update, thanks.

    Must have been from a site update, thanks.
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    Norse Mythology Reference Thread - The Whitest Has His Eye on You

    Nope, Thor is Tyr but Odyn came later and his cult eventually displaced Thor's as the most prominent, leading to syncretism, and eventually revisionism. Myths got mixed up and revised a lot over time, probably Odyn/Vidrir's brothers were Hoenir and Loptr, and Loptr might have been an earlier...
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    I'm glad to know that the small number of people who read those stories isn't reflective of how...

    I'm glad to know that the small number of people who read those stories isn't reflective of how much they were enjoyed by those who did read them. Much belated reply, I know.
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    Never read it, but the synopsis I just looked at does sound pretty on point for them.

    Never read it, but the synopsis I just looked at does sound pretty on point for them.
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    Video Games General

    I seem to recall it was the other way around. East India basically went loose cannon and the Empire had to go to war against it, or something like that.
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    Admin Vacation - Reign of Bii

    Turning your notice early, are we?
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    A Just Measure (One Piece x Mass Effect)

    Not gonna lie, this isn't looking like the sort of society I'd expect to rise from Joyboy's victory.
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    Norse Mythology Reference Thread - The Whitest Has His Eye on You

    There's no known mythic connection, actually, just an assumed etymologic one.
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    Norse Mythology Reference Thread - The Whitest Has His Eye on You

    Same name as Loptr, just written differently. Lothur is another spelling, closest to what it sounded like.
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    Norse Mythology Reference Thread - The Whitest Has His Eye on You

    Besides what I said right after that point? Specifically the part about what fenrisulfr means? I did preface the whole post with a link to the database of scholarship too. That said, the etymology does seem to have become a bit more contested since I made this thread, but mostly about what...
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